"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"

Our enemy delights in our ineffective witness so he lays religious traps for us. We all are susceptible. We must fight all four traps.Trap 1: Finger PointingTrap 2: Big PeopleTrap 3: CocooningTrap 4: Assuming

8 Steps Out of the Abyss:Step 1 - We admit that we love to judge other people. Our thankless grumbling is a key observable symptom.Step 2 – We realize that we detest mercy… for others.Step 3 – We begin to apply teaching and rebuke to ourselves only.Step 4 – We repent. We are ready to have God remove all these defects of attitude and character.Step 5 – We embrace the belief that we are, and will always be, experts at sinning. Therefore, we must become heart-felt repenters.Step 6 – We are seeking through prayer and meditation to make a conscious effort to consider others better than ourselves.Step 7 - Embrace the state of grateful astonishment in knowing God.Step 8 – We open our lives, take up our cross, sacrifice, to reach a world in need of the Savior.